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Levinas on the Ethics of the Other
HU Lijun
PU Jingxin
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2024.01.003
Chinese Culture Academy, San Diego, USA
Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, China
The traditional mainstream of political philosophy establishes its thoughts on the subjectivity of “I”, which also formats its ethics of justice and freedom on the ground of selfness for itself and by itself. Political philosophers also incline to generalize and neutralize in labelling persons into the abstract concepts which ignore their particularity and diversity; as a result, this led to devastative consequence politically for the other, and also jeopardized the “I”. Hence Emmanuel Levinas provides his solution to this dilemma in an attempt to put the ethics of justice on the ground of the other. Justice for the other is the starting point for the political ethics. The other is the absolute infinity which cannot be encompassed by any conceptual generalization. It is otherness of the other that actually constitutes the selfness of “I”. The freedom of the other guarantees the freedom of “I”. Human being is initially ethical being. Justice for the other is the real foundation in securing justice for “I”. This mutual horizon of the other and I has primitive implication for the genuine ethics.
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HU Lijun & PU Jingxin. (2024). Levinas on the Ethics of the Other. Philosophy Study, Jan.-Feb. 2024, Vol. 14, No. 1, 16-21.
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